If it helps, I just picked up an Asus T101MT netbook / tablet.
(http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX28877(ME).aspx). This has
a 10 inch screen, but there is a model with a 7" screen for $90 less.
My only real complaint about it so far is that there is no
easy/convenient way to make a recovery disk to get the system back to
factory defaults. There *is* a way to create a backup onto a USB stick
(you have to change the bios to NOT do the quick boot, then hit F9 when
booting). The resulting USB stick is completely erased and becomes a
single purpose thing. If you copy data to it, your backup will no
longer function as you'd expect.
The device runs Ubuntu 10.10 and almost everything works out of the box.
The Broadcom Atheros wifi drivers do work properly, and the touch
screen works as well - at least with single touch mouse type actions.
There is support to fix the little things -
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/T101MT. I haven't gotten through all
of these yet, but have the system at a point I consider useable for my
needs.
HTH.
Shawn
On 10-11-30 10:45 AM, sean halter wrote:
Hey
Thanks for all the information. My netbook is two years old so I am
starting to shop for a replacement and I will keep all this in mind.
I was thinking about getting a dell Vosotro. It is almost as small as a
netbook.
http://configure.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=nb_v13u_f2_e&c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&model_id=vostro-v13
<http://configure.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=nb_v13u_f2_e&c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&model_id=vostro-v13>
Do you think that its wireless card, Dell Wireless 1397 802.11b/g, would
do the trick?
<http://configure.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=nb_v13u_f2_e&c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&model_id=vostro-v13>
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:06 PM, sean halter <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi
> I do a lot of skype calls over wireless and I have a question
that some of
> you might be able to answer.
> My work computer is running an AMD Vision with Windows 7 and
Skype calls
> made via the wireless card are perfect. I mean virtually 100% of
the time.
> However, on my netbook running Ubuntu 10.04 (using the same wireless
> router) calls often suck, with dropped portions of conversations.
Is this
> due to the wireless card in my netbook, or, is it because the
netbook is
> running the drivers in Wine?
Wine or NDIS wrapper? In my experience the performance of ndiswrapper
was an order of magnitude lower than a native driver. My current
laptop has an Intel wifi adapter and it works great with skype (I also
use 802.11a to avoid the congestion in the 2.4 Ghz band) and tc to
prioritize skype over web and email traffic.
> Any ideas?\
> Would things get better if I were running linux and skype on a
> speedier computer? Or is this an operating system thing?
More power helps, netbooks are just too underpowered for my taste.
Your problem is likely the chipset in the wifi card. Fortunately for
most netbooks it is possible to replace this device with something
better (like one of these for example
http://www.xagyl.com/store/product.php?productid=16172&cat=251&bestseller=Y
<http://www.xagyl.com/store/product.php?productid=16172&cat=251&bestseller=Y>)
I favor an actual laptop with dual band (2.4 and 5 Ghz) support. It
seems almost everybody has a 802.11b/g/n AP on 2.4 Ghz these days.
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